For those of you that are new to Vivit, you may not have heard about the Vivit Advanced HP Software Implementation Training that will be available at HP DISCOVER Vienna in November. This is the first year that Vivit will be offering the Training at the EMEA conference, and we are very excited about this opportunity for our members. The Vivit Advanced Training began in the US in 2007 and has since been an ideal opportunity for end users to gain valuable training on current topics. These much-demanded and highly ranked classes are four-hour deep dive implementation and integration tutorials from Vivit members who are consultants and vendors in the HP Software space. The classes start where most others leave off and provide real-world implementation experiences and examples from practitioners who are in the field solving business problems with HP Software tools every day.

After participating in this Deep Dive training, you'll know what it takes to gain full benefit of the new features in ALM 11, including e.g. Project Planning & Tracking and HP Sprinter. The course also includes many overall best practices of using and maintaining HP ALM. The training is based on extensive experience in deploying HP ALM and teaches how to successfully implement HP ALM while avoiding pitfalls.

The course is suitable for both HP Quality Center and HP ALM users.

Course level:Intermediate to Advanced

Prerequisites: Participants should have at least ½ year of experience in using HP Quality Center or HP ALM.

Take your performance testing skills to the next level! This deep dive session helps testing engineers learn a structured and repeatable approach to application performance engineering using a combination of several products from HP and Shunra Software. The Shunra Application Performance Engineering framework is a common-sense arrangement of practices, processes and deliverables that help to organize the performance engineering activities into a more comprehensive and efficient program. You'll learn how to enhance the planning of your performance tests by first discovering the real-world conditions of the end-user environment, leveraging information from production monitoring. You'll learn how to effectively incorporate real-world conditions into your testing labs or staging environment. Then we'll spend time digging into the workings of a real application and infrastructure, analyzing the performance issues and limitations. At the end, we'll help you learn how to bring all the raw data together and produce a business case for solving and improving the performance of your application and validate the remediation of the real performance issues.

Specific skills acquired will include:

Introduction to a repeatable framework for Application Performance Engineering

How to enhance performance test planning with data collected from and about the real world of the end-user. How to include more than just the basic business flows or SLAs.

How to recreate the real world in your testing lab – with various solutions from HP and Shunra combined

As uCMDB and BSM evolve and integrate, there is a growing need for easier, more generic integration and data management capabilities. Come for a refresh on the concepts of uCMDB and CMS in HP, specifically the architecture of the new uCMDB. Through the use of the generic DB adapter and the new uCMDB integration studio, we will demonstrate the process of customizing a discovery adapter, manipulating integrations and managing the process of CMDB population. Learn how to extend the out-of-the-box discovery capabilities and add new classes. Explore the new interface highlights and see previews of uCMDB management processes.

Target Group: uCMDB users

I look forward to seeing you in Vienna at the Vivit Advanced Training classes. And if you are interested, following is a list of our past course offerings: